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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • If you’re talking about the base image, it’s sort of real.

    The player is YouTuber Max Fosh and it was a charity football event. However the incident (as far as we know) was not scripted and he actually tried hard to get a yellow card just to be able to pull off this stunt. You could probably find the video he made on it by searching “Max Fosh yellow card”.




  • We can do that with the first sentence and flip it into German, replacing “lighter” with “fireworks”. We get:

    “Sie dürfen die Feuerarbeiten nicht mit in die Luftebene nehmen.”

    A lot of German speaking communities online do translate English loanwords into German words, often with the intention to create this funny effect.







  • Re LLM summaries: I’ve noticed that too. For some of my classes shortly after the ChatGPT boom we were allowed to bring along summaries. I tried to feed it input text and told it to break it down into a sentence or two. Often it would just give a short summary about that topic but not actually use the concepts described in the original text.

    Also minor nitpick but be wary of the term “accuracy”. It is a terrible metric for most use cases and when a company advertises their AI having a high accuracy they’re likely hiding something. For example, let’s say we wanted to develop a model that can detect cancer on medical images. If our test set consists of 1% cancer inages and 99% normal tissue the 99% accuracy is achieved trivially easy by a model just predicting “no cancer” every time. A lot of the more interesting problems have class imbalances far worse than this one too.



  • The reason they chose Antarctica is because the most often used flat earth model* has Antarctica as a ring on the “rim”.

    They usually do acknowledge a 24h sun in the north existing based on that model because it would require the sun to remain central over the disc, which is geometrically not really an issue. However the southern 24h sun is not possible with that model. (Edit: Excluding some weird lensing effects or multiple suns, like some of them claim)

    *Most of them will tell you they don’t have a model, because they don’t really know what “model” means.

    Source: I watched too many SciManDan videos.